It sounds like it's going to be really hot again today, but we've adapted, haven't we?
No? No, it's the humidity, right? That's what everyone's saying. It's the humidity.
Well, we were on vacation, we had a good time, and we had one day at 107 and another day at 111, so...
But it was a dry heat. You know, that's how you make it positive. You just say,
it was a dry heat then. So, yeah, we had a really good time, and the Lord, I love separating away
enough that you hear from Him in a different way. I mean, we all need to do that. Sometimes you just
want to go have fun, and that's great. This should be all a part of vacation. But in it,
we're always like, God, what are you trying to show us? What are we not seeing when we're in the
thing that we can see outside of the thing? That makes sense? Yeah. So, I want to start just by...
We're going to jump a couple spots here this morning, but I want to start just by thinking...
I mean, last week was really good. I was able to... Sometimes you're in a campground,
and you're like, you have connection, and then you lose it, and you're like,
come on! You know, it's like a icky feeling, because you want to know what's going to happen
next or whatever. But it was very moving the last couple weeks. And so, that's wonderful. But I want to
read over and speak over the body, and I'll do this off and on. And we should do this off and on
just because God's trying to move us into a new area of the blessing. And as watchmen,
we climb the tower, we have to be able to see past the last blessing, the last thing,
the last part of the ground that he had us take. And still, you know, when we take grounds, like you
buy 40 acres, you own it now, so you got to take care of it, right? But to get another 40 acres,
you know, stop taking care of those 40 acres so you can get another. We have to grow into the
spot of being able to rule and reign more plots. And that's where he's taking us.
Well, it takes the blessing to do that. And I've read this before here, but it's something
that I just feel really strongly for the body. And that is Proverbs 11, verse 25, and I'm reading
out the Amplified. The generous man is a source of blessing and shall be prosperous and enriched.
And he who waters will himself be watered, reaping the generosity he has sown. And so that's like
one of those scriptures that say if, even though it didn't say if, you know, like if you abide in me
and I abide in you, you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free. We have to,
in order to claim one thing, you have to do the if. And this has some of that in there.
The generous man or woman is a source of blessing. And that's what the Lord looks for.
When he's looking to and fro, he's like, who can carry the blessing? Who can house the blessing?
Who can be taking the blessing from one place to the next and infuse it into situations?
Who can give? Who knows how to steward? I mean, it's the generous man isn't just to be a person who
just, I just like to give to anybody who's walking around. It's like you're really following the
spirit and your heart is, what would you have me do, Lord? Where do you want me to go?
How do you want me to do this? And so the generous man is a source. So God can look to and fro throughout
the earth, looking for those that he can show himself strong through. But he's looking for that
kind of heart, that generous heart that says, I'm willing. A generous heart is a willing heart.
And then we're subjected or come under where he's at. Now, I have presented different needs
or different things for years. You have to let people know what the need is or whatever.
And I have had people who are generous put rules around that. A lot of times, the business mind
will say, well, prove to me it's a good project, prove to me it's this and whatever. I want to
have my name on a brick, you know, outside the church saying I gave so much. And here's a way
we could get the money. And it's all set up like really like the world would do it.
And a generous heart is like, nobody needs to know. But me and God, if I can give in a way
where nobody needs to know this, it's on a need to know basis, you don't need to know.
But I'm just following the spirit and I'm willing. The willing and the obedient shall
eat the good of the land. The willing and the obedient. So we've talked about before being obedient
is one thing, but being willing is a whole other thing. You know, it's like I used the
example before of you tell your child to take the garbage on and say, okay, fine. And does
the garbage go out? Yes, it does. And they were obedient. They just weren't willing.
And it takes the willing heart to be able to be that yielded to say, God, whatever it is,
you want me to do, I will do. The generous man is a source. We want to be a source
of the blessing and shall be prosperous and enriched. Now, the blessing covers everything
from healing to deliverance to it's not just all about money, but money shows up
because it's part of how the system works. And the wealth of the wicked is laid up
for the righteous. It just it will transfer just because you're being obedient, just because you're
doing you're in that willing mode. And he who waters will himself be watered reaping the generosity
he has shown. So what the Lord has had me do many times in my life and and he's doing it again
with this scripture is not not to talk about like like this is I'm going to call something in
or whatever he'll have me go back and say have you given yes I have well therefore you shall receive
it's like we planted seed and we forgot to harvest it so there is a way to you know these
scriptures it's like yes it's telling us the principle to run by in the future but what we
We have already planted. Therefore, we shall also reap.
I've planted some pretty good stuff. I've also planted some stuff I don't want to reap off of.
I'm like, God, wreck the crop. Just do something. I don't really want to reap off of that.
That's not of your kingdom. Let's get the fire out and burn the field down.
I mean, it's that type of thing. At the same time, that attitude of the generous heart
is the willing and obedient falls into that. But he who waters will himself be watered.
So, how do you pray that? I had one lady say, when I go to pray something like that,
I feel guilty. I feel like I'm greedy. I feel like I'm pushing him to give me stuff.
No, the law and the principles right there, you gave, so therefore you shall receive.
It's just like 2 plus 2, God equal 4. It's just the way it works, right?
And he who waters will himself be watered, reaping the generosity he has shown.
So to pray something like that, you have to be able to say, I have watered.
Or God, forgive me for not watering. One or the other.
Right? But either one kick starts, you moving into the blessing.
So you have to address where we haven't come under and we have to address where we have.
And it's not selfish, it's just fact I gave, therefore I shall receive.
Therefore I'm operating in the laws of the blessing. That's where it's at. Amen?
So, this is why it's important if you want healing, pray for the sick.
See, we always think this financially. If you're in a generous way, it's like,
yeah, my legs really hurt me. Oh, you need prayer? I'll pray for you.
Right? And I'm praying so that your leg heals, but you're sowing the whole time.
You're watering. You're going to be watered. There's a confidence that says, God, that's God I serve.
He just waters back. I water. He waters back. And then I take that water and I water out.
And it's just, it is that flow. I'm not making him do anything.
It is a spiritual law. It's how it works.
And so when we operate in that for all different things,
I thank you, Lord, that you've watered into me deliverance.
And I have been set free. Therefore, I'm going to take that out and water.
Therefore, it will come back to me again in my times of need,
where ahead of time I'm delivered from something I didn't even know was there.
The generous man is a source. I want to be a source of blessing
and shall be prosperous and enriched. And he who waters will himself be watered,
reaping the generosity he has shown.
So verse 28 says, he who leans on and trusts in and is confident in his riches will fall.
Even the poorest person can lean on whatever they have as riches.
In fact, sometimes poverty will get you into a spot
where that ten bucks that's in your wallet is so important.
It's like it was a million. Right? Because you have need.
But then all of a sudden that ten bucks becomes your source.
And he wants us to be still in that attitude.
We can't lean on and trust in our riches,
but the righteous who trust in God's provision will flourish like a green leaf.
That's another promise. Right?
The righteous who trust in God's provision will flourish like a green leaf.
So faith without works is dead. We got to go do what we need to be able to do.
But we trust that he is a provider.
So I had one time, I was talking in a church that I could tell
didn't believe in prosperity in any way.
And I just asked him the question,
what does it look like to be a provider?
So if I said, you know, God provides all your needs.
How does he do that? What does provision look like?
And it was really interesting how the spirit of poverty was so strong there.
They couldn't think of how he would provide.
Besides, we're going to go to heaven.
That's a big deal that we're going to go to heaven.
That's salvation. Salvation in the, in the meaning of salvation,
there is part of that meaning means to take the limits off.
So part of the blessing, all of those different things come at us.
When he's taking the limits off, he provides a way to get the limits off.
He did that 2,000 years ago, didn't he?
To get the limits off of our bodies, to get the limits off of our minds,
get the limits off of our checkbook, to get the limits off.
And so then, if he's taking the limits off, who's limiting these things?
And we can say, oh, this is a devil.
I doubt it. I doubt it.
He's good, but he ain't that good.
Right? He's not omnipresent.
So he can't be all over my dirt and all over your dirt all at the same time.
He's got his little minions out there and talking trash.
It's what we choose to believe.
It's what we choose to put ourselves into.
And then belief, that's why unbelief is such a thing.
As it takes you out of the blessing, a belief takes you into the blessing.
So things aren't going right.
First thing I say to myself is, where am I outside of the blessing in my thinking?
So then you go back to his precious promises or the laws.
The law of faith.
You know, faith is neither even in thy mouth, it comes by hearing.
And here's what's interesting.
Times that I have been out of faith.
It wasn't that I didn't have faith.
I was just outside the thinking of it.
I had to go to the Word and get my head back on straight like a chiropractor he does.
And then all of a sudden you see it again.
That's what the Word does. It comes alive.
It brings the blessing to you.
And it corrects lies.
And so as I would do that, then I'd have to pray that out.
And so here's where the watchmen many times are assigned to go up and we see.
Right? We see and we're like, oh, that's poverty.
Oh, that needs deliverance.
Oh, that needs these different things.
And then if you're untrained, we go to pray about that.
And we don't sound like the Word.
We sound like our soul.
Please, Lord, I know I had one woman pray like this.
I know that you're really busy.
There was another lady that told her daughter.
She had wrote out her requests like kids do to Santa Claus.
And she wrote it all down.
And she was a little girl and she said, no, he doesn't have time for everybody, honey.
You can't expect these things.
He doesn't have time.
So to be a Christian means you're a Christ follower,
which means Christ is not Jesus' last name.
It means the anointed one and his anointing.
But to experience the anointing, you have to know what you believe
and what you're going to declare.
This is what the blessing says.
This is what the testament said.
This is what my lawyer said.
This is in his will.
And so to be able to come back, even to Old Testament scripture,
which comes out of the chapters of just plain wisdom,
he who leans on a trust in his confidence in his riches will fall.
So let's say I'm going to pray over this.
Lord God, if I in any way am leaning on myself or on riches
or on my ways or on my business or on my way of bringing prosperity to happen,
Lord, I just, I ask forgiveness right now in the name of Jesus.
And something has to change just financially.
I ask forgiveness.
I do not want that in my heart.
See, you always approach him, not like you've arrived,
but you're not there yet.
Otherwise, if you've arrived, he has nothing to offer you.
Amen?
He has nothing to offer you.
So we get there and we deal with that.
But the righteous Lord, and I am righteous.
Well, people have a hard time saying that because it's like,
I can't say that.
I know what I thought yesterday and I know how I yelled at the kids or whatever.
It's like, but I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
I'm in the anointed one and his anointing.
Therefore, righteousness is on me.
I can step outside of that willingly or I can just come into it.
I just got done saying, Lord, if I'm doing this in any way,
bring me back to a righteous spot.
But the righteous who trust in God's provision will flourish like a green leaf.
I like those time-lapse things where they show a plant
coming out of the ground and all of a sudden, and there it is.
Well, we know it doesn't really happen that way.
That's a time-lapse.
But we have to see ourselves coming up out of something.
And what these scriptures do is they correct our way of thinking.
So what if your thinking is off when it comes to healing?
What if you saw something when you were a watchman
and you climbed the wall and you saw something
and now you went to address it and we don't know what we can stand on
because we're not quite sure if we can say that.
We have to establish the base so that we're praying the word
is what I'm trying to say.
And this is an example of being able to pray the word.
And then you're able to say, God, you said,
you said I will flourish like a green leaf.
Yes, but he also said we can't trust in our own stuff.
So the balance is always like check yourself and then get in with him.
And then check yourself and then get in with him. Amen?
So the confidence in prayer where we're able to pray the word
is we already checked ourselves. Amen?
Before I go to prayer, I go check myself
and you can only see yourself to the degree he's disclosed to you. Amen?
But whatever I see I'm going to deal with
and then I'm going to come before him and declare what he said.
Lord, you said. You said.
You don't have to get the scriptures all just perfect when you quote it
if you're quoting King James or not.
It's more because I've had people like I didn't get it right
and I didn't say where it was found.
It's the principle of what you believe is what you're after.
If I didn't know where this is found, but I know what it says, you know,
and I can't quote the demons like and that's in chapter 11, you know, verse whatever.
It doesn't mean it's not, you're not using your weapon right.
The fact is it's to change my way of thinking.
If I'm like, oh, everything's going down financially.
For instance, I can go back and say, no, no, no,
it doesn't matter what it looks like. I have watered.
I have watered there for I shall be watered.
I'm just waiting for the water to come.
Come on, water manifests. You see that?
And then, you know, that can be twisted to the whole blabbit and grab it
and all that kind of stuff.
I think I've gone back and listened to so many sermons.
I mean, it's so fun now because you can just vacuum
and listen to a sermon and do dishes and I mean,
you can be in church all day long if you want to.
I do that sometimes. I'm just in church.
And because I need this between my ears, it needs to change.
It needs... my way of thinking needs to change.
And I have to come over to the way he's thinking.
So faith cometh by hearing.
And so we apply the hearing part.
It goes in, but in order for it to go down to the heart,
we have to grab a hold of it and say,
it says it therefore I believe. I choose belief.
It doesn't matter if I feel like it.
I doesn't matter if, you know, my emotions are freaking out
or whatever.
I choose to believe this is what he said
and he's not a man that he can lie.
So therefore I have watered.
Therefore I shall be watered.
See how your prayers get a little more confident?
And then we don't pray around things.
You know how I've always talked about praying around things.
There's prayer groups that get together.
Let's all hold hands and then we go,
Father, you know that I know that you know.
Some statement like that.
You know, and it's more like,
and this was a good man.
He has served in our church and he needs me,
like we're going to convince him now
off of all the works this man has done
so that healing will come to him.
You know, the man could be just jacked.
God forgive this man.
But we are invoking spiritual laws that say
he is healed.
Because you said...
See.
When I do the prayer around things,
prayers don't come out vocally.
They don't come out, you know, just...
It's like you're...
Here's Hemhawn.
Taking up time you're like,
and that's when you look at the clock a lot.
It's like, I'm still Hemhawn.
It's been 15 minutes.
I think we're done now.
Prayer groups go short like that.
But when you begin to pray the word,
even if it's just one word that he has said,
and that is your prayer for the week.
Every time you're in prayer, you're like,
Lord, I have watered.
Therefore, I am being watered.
Even now, you're bringing water my way.
Even now, wherever I am dry,
wherever there is some kind of need,
water is coming to me because I have watered.
See how it gets confident?
It's not just Pastor Mary and being bossy.
Right?
It's like having a sword fight.
And you're like, stop it.
Like those movies where the chick picks up the gun or whatever.
And it's like, don't.
And they take it out of her hands.
I don't want to pray like that.
Those movies irritate me.
I'm like, get out of there.
You don't even know what you're doing.
Get out of there.
You shouldn't even be in the fight.
But it's that type of thing where we have to come up,
where we know what our weapons do,
and we're not afraid to use them.
And it's so automatic
because we have prayed the word,
and we believe the word.
And it's so automatic.
And here we are as watchmen.
We saw some.
We don't fear what we see.
You know why the church is not wanting to look
at governmental things?
I'm talking the body of Christ
because it causes them to fear what they saw.
And I don't want to be fearful.
Well, then stop.
And go and find out what the word says
about that thing that you saw.
And pray and pray in confidence.
I confided in him,
and this is what he said.
Now I have confidence.
I believe that he is able.
Amen?
He is able.
Praise you, Lord God.
I could just...
Whoo.
See, when I started talking about this,
and you could feel fire inside.
It's shut up in your bones.
What is that?
That's a word of God.
Who is Jesus?
It's the word of God.
Who is Jesus?
So what is your situation?
What are we going after as a body?
We have to take a look at that
and start finding scriptures to stand on.
Not like, what can I find?
What can I find?
It's more like, show me.
Talk to me, God.
I'm confiding in you.
Give me what needs to be said.
And then when we say it,
we say it with confidence.
Now, this can get confusing,
because sometimes there's prayer times
that are totally asking.
And they're God.
Right?
So it can be like we get together.
Lord, we are asking for your will
and your ways to come on this church.
We're asking, Lord God,
that ways of thinking change.
We're at the whole time you're asking.
Okay, you do that.
But if every Sunday we're in the ask,
when do we ever cross over
to the say unto this mountain?
Be thou removed and cast into the sea
and don't doubt in our heart.
When do we cross over to that?
Now, are we always declaring,
declaring, declaring?
No.
God, it's an ebb and flow
of following Him where it's like,
this is an asking time.
This is a demanding time.
This is a declaring time.
This is a time where we're crying out.
There's times like,
I'll never forget during 2020
when things were shutting down
or whatever they showed.
In Israel,
they showed the Jewish people
praying for America.
It was so loud.
There was thousands of people
that were on their knees
and they're hitting the platform
that they were on
and praying for America
because they knew if we
shifted into something,
we're going down.
And as America goes,
many times so does the rest of the world.
The world knows that.
It's going to have a big effect.
So,
that was not that time
where they were just
declaring usad or whatever.
It's like, God, have mercy.
Have mercy on America.
So there's times for that.
So being a watchman,
you're sinning,
you're all weapon-read,
and you come up out of the mainland
where you live everyday life
and you learn to rule and reign
and you climb that tower
and you look out
and you see something.
You're like, oh, snap.
I did not know that was out there.
That's headed our direction or whatever.
It should be automatic
that you know your weapons
enough you know what to grab.
Right?
You're not just pulling everything out
and don't know what to do.
It's like, this is knife worthy right here.
That's what this is.
This is machine gun worthy.
And so when our language was to be
this is praise worthy.
Like we need to get in worship right now
and just hang there
and break barriers.
This is a declaring time.
Oh, it's coming this way
and it's declaring something to me.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm going to declare something that's greater.
There's a standard that's higher
than what that thing is saying.
Amen?
So here's what's happened.
A lot of us have taken hits.
We feel like we lost victories
on certain things.
We've had losses in families
and things like that.
Financial businesses.
There's been a lot of change.
We don't look to the loss.
We look to the weaponry
of his promises.
And when you're hurting,
it's really hard to declare.
But you do it anyway.
You do it anyway.
You start out, tears coming.
You're mad about the thing
and it's starting to come out
and the next thing you know,
you're declaring it
and it starts to get loud.
Well, I'm not a loud person.
Well, guess what?
It'll happen.
You shock yourself
because it's shut up in your bones.
And you need to let it out.
So, you lean on and trust
in anything would be
confidence in yourself.
This is what this means.
Confidence comes from confiding.
Who'd you confide in?
About your situation.
Who'd you go talk to?
Well, I have a friend up north
and I talk to him
and he's going through the same thing
yet and you're both thinking alike.
So, you shouldn't confide in someone
who hasn't been farther than you've gone.
Right?
I always say,
I can't take you anywhere farther
than what I've gone
and I can't give you
what I don't have.
So, I'd better go get something
and I'd better go somewhere
in order to lead you out
of the situation.
And so, who do we confide in?
And the worst person to confide in
is ourselves.
I got to get my confidence up.
Well, I got to talk to myself.
I just need time alone with me.
Oh.
I don't like listening to me
and sometimes me is my worst enemy.
I have to tell me to shut up sometimes.
Just like,
shut your pie hole.
I'm not with you.
I'm confiding in the Holy Spirit.
I'm confiding in he
who is separate from the world.
My soul knows how the world operates
and I can come up with business plans.
I'm like that.
My brain is like,
we could do this
and it doesn't mean it's God.
I'm confiding more in myself
than I am him.
You confide in his word
who is Jesus.
And you confide in the Holy Spirit
to bring that word alive
and give you revelation.
And you confide in both of them
to take you to the Father
who has the first and the last say.
Let's stand.
Hallelujah.
So,
someone told me it's sin consciousness
to always address yourself.
When you go to prayer,
you should just be confident to go to God
that he loves you and everything.
I don't go to God.
I know he loves me,
but I'm going to make sure it's straight.
Right?
You go to your earthly father
and he's in charge of the zone
the family or whatever,
and you're going to approach him
and you know he screwed something up,
but just deal with that.
Say, hey dad, I know I messed this up.
Can we fix that?
Like what do you want me to do in that area?
Now we can go on and talk about other business.
It's not a condemnation.
It's not sin consciousness.
It's making sure the path is straight
and there's nothing on the path
but his presence.
I don't want anything blocking me
from his presence.
Can you see that?
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Praise you, Lord God.
So we all have situations.
Remember I said, you know,
your situation can just be a thing
or it can be something you're sitting in
because that's why it's called a situation.
And we don't want to sit there anymore
so we're going to get up this morning.
We got to get up out of our situation.
Isaiah talks about that.
Get up out of your depression.
The thing, depressed means
like you're being held down.
Get up. You get up out of it.
You stand up
and say, enough's enough.
And then what happens
many times we'll get mad.
We'll say, enough's enough.
And you know what?
God help me.
That's as far as we can go
because we haven't found the word on it.
But all of a sudden you say,
enough is enough.
I have watered.
Therefore I shall be watered.
The water is coming my way now.
See how that flips it?
But if you stay in there
just like, oh Jesus help me.
Won't you help me Lord?
We are here
and we don't use our works
to convince God to do something for us.
But the spiritual laws that we line up with
I am not a very righteous person on my own
but I am the righteousness of God
in Christ Jesus.
And so I ask forgiveness for all sin
and the righteousness that's on me now
puts me in a righteous spot.
Therefore I give
and therefore I shall receive.
Therefore I'm moving ahead
and therefore I shall receive
because from him he has provided
and he is the provider.
And I'm only taking,
confiding in him regarding my situation.
We confide in you
right now Lord God
that before anyone leaves the service today
they'll have an aha moment that says
ah, that's what I got to ask forgiveness for.
That's what needs change.
That's what I need to find scripture on
or he will show you in revelatory power
the scripture you need to be standing on
before you ever leave the church service.
I would set my faith like that.
Stop confiding in yourself.
You ain't that good.
Let's go to Jesus
and confide in him by the Holy Spirit.
Bring your word alive.
Ah, he said, I am the resurrection
and the life.
Bring alive the word inside of us.
Let's begin and just pray in the spirit.
Yishina da yor umo sincrete na manasura.
Yere asa.
The man can come up in a little bit here.
Uroso nebreshte dede karadela yor umo noso soro.
Ibrata naye ke sombroto noso lor no mosehte dede.
Uratameye ke se se.
So he says, Holy fervor or Holy,
what people have said, like anger,
only comes up.
This is what the Lord is saying right now.
It only comes up when you know what you trust in.
Anger says, by the way,
this is me saying this now,
anger says, I want something to stop.
That's why it's there.
Red flags the situation and goes,
uh-uh, we ain't doing this.
Right?
And sometimes we're just too nice.
Uh-uh, we're not doing this.
We're not allowing this in our household.
We're not letting this in the church.
We're not letting this in our business.
I said no. I said no.
And you said, Lord God.
See, we got to climb the tower.
And as we see what's going on,
we go, uh-uh, and reach for the right weapon.
And if you reach for something,
all your arrows are gone,
all your knives missing or whatever.
Okay, climb down the tower and get with him.
Get with him and be like,
what does your word say on this?
I need to know.
I need to know before I go back up there.
Ures, se, se, de, de, la, har, do, no, so, so, ro, do, no.
He will make a right what you have asked for.
He will make a right what you have asked for.
Father, I thank you that you're changing it up.
You're moving over her in the name of Jesus.
And Lord, you said that she's blessed and highly favored.
The word bless means empowered to prosper,
to have success down the road.
So whatever is opposite of that
is opposite of our Father's kingdom.
And we say no to it.
And we welcome and confide in where the blessing is.
We confide in you, Lord God, too.
We have the confidence to say what you said.
To say what you said.
Let's lay our hands on our heart.
God, we ask that you give us the confidence
to say what you said.
To say what you said.
And it doesn't matter if people come against us
or what's happening in this situation.
We will say what you said.
We confide in you for what you have said over our situation.
We confide in it.
And we get back in the fight
for those of us who have stepped out.
And we step up and fight the fight of faith
with your word and with your weaponry.
We don't trust in ourselves.
We are not confident in ourselves.
We confide in you
and the confidence comes out of that about you.
There are a few unrighteous situations
and I won't name them,
but that people have brought up
that are in workplaces
and it's just not right.
What's going on is like, wow, that is not right.
So we address them right now
in the name of Jesus.
The blessing rests on those
who are in a righteous spot.
The righteousness that shows up
is part of the blessing and the anointing
that will be released into that business
and they'll have opportunity to repent.
Or otherwise there will come judgment.
There will come judgment
because truth always judges a lie.
It takes absolute truth
to dispel a lie.
And so we thank you, Lord,
that you're doing that and we release that
by the favor of God,
by the blood of Jesus right now.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, God.
Your word says...
Your word says...
You could say it that way.
Jesus Yeshua the Christ.
You said...
You red-lettered it.
You said, Lord God,
your principles, your ways,
they are precious
and they're truth.
Let's just repeat after me this.
And I may say it a couple of times.
God is not a man that he can lie.
All right, because the reason,
think about this, we will confide
and he corrected me in this.
That's where it's coming out of.
It's like, let me check myself first.
I might be able to come up with something.
The reason that I would do that
in a certain area is I actually don't trust
him in that area
to confide in him.
Because it's going to open
like a whole thing and then
I'll probably get convicted about something
and there's going to be like, let me just check me first.
God forgive us for doing that.
And we redirect everything
right now. It's not by our emotions.
We come over to confide
in you.
And our soul has to be quiet.
We're spiritual beings first
and we are looking for spiritual answers
to speak into this physical world
to bring heaven down
to the earth.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be
thy name, thy kingdom come.
So let's say this.
You might start out saying it like
you know, he's not a man that he can lie.
But we'll say it enough until
confidence comes.
God
is not a man that he can
lie.
My God
is not a man that
he can lie.
I said my God
is not a man
that he can lie.
His word is true
and I choose to believe it.
Hallelujah.
Let's have the band come.
Praise you, Lord Jesus.
Praise you, Lord Jesus.
I will tell you that this affects worship.
You know how it affects worship?
If you're not confident in whom you believe
in, your worship will be like
do something for me.
Right?
Or else go through the road of singing.
When you know you've had the victory
before dance comes out of you
because it's like I've had
the victory before. He's going to do it again.
He's not a man that he can lie.
We have this. Oh God, you're so good.
And it just comes automatic.
Your emotions go to the back
and the spirit of who you are
comes forward and you're ready.
Does that make sense?
But when we're in a spot
where we're either feeling sorry for
ourselves or we confide it in
ourselves.
When I confide in myself, the bad part
about it is it brings up the worst
memories.
When you ask yourself
what should we do? The worst memories
come up to help your subconscious
will say, let me keep you safe in this.
Because you remember this time?
Remember this time?
We're not in that time though.
We're in the now
faith time, like right now.
And it's been a moment, so now we have
another now faith time.
As moments go by, we're now
faith.
We're in now faith.
And so we
stop confiding in the past.
We've learned some things from the past.
But we're here.
This is a new day.
This is the day the Lord hath
made. I will
rejoice and be glad in it.
We will rejoice
and be glad in it. Wherever we had
joy before, we're going to rejoice
that thing. We're going to come in this
morning. It's going to be a greater joy.
And the joy of the Lord is our strength.
And so here it goes. We're coming
into worship in such a way.
We have a high expectation.
We can confide in you.
We can rejoice in you because
you're the way, the truth, the life.
You're the answer to my situation.
We stop right now
confiding in ourselves
and set ourselves to the side. And we
come to you, Lord God.
What you saying?
What you trying to get across to us
today.
Line us up
in destiny. Line us up
with who you are.
This is why praying in unknown tongues
edifies our spirit. Part of that
edification is getting your soul out
of the way so that the spirit of
who you are and him in you
can come up forward and give you
revelation from the heavenly realms.